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You are delusional. I think you should think about what you said. Its one thing to allow users to fuck up their PC at home (average MS users) its another to allow idiots to walk around spewing personal data all over the meatspace. There are ways to enforce security with minimal invasion. Your OLD *Samsung* case is nothing like how Bluetooth is implemented in premium devices today. I have never entered my pair code more than once and I LIKE that a 2 year old can't hijack my Bluetooth devices with zero effort. I understand it can be hacked, but at least it can't be done by every walmart checker.

I'm sorry, I must have crossed an Apple fanboi. But okay, I'll bite. Obviously, *Samsung* doesn't have any "premium devices", and only "MS users" ever leave their wireless router unprotected.

As far as spewing personal data all over, Facebook should be a good enough example that people don't care about their personal data... They walk around posting location updates now too.

Funny thing is that I actually think it's good for Apple to support this standard that forces the standard user to think about security.

Romero certainly hasn't lost any of his creativity. http://www.facebook.com/RavenwoodFair It would be nice to see another fps from him, regardless of if it did or did not use an iD engine. Something magical, like hexen, would be nice.

spot on. any publicity is good publicity etc.. Also make people more aware of fb's anti competive nature, although im sure they will turn aound and plead 'conflict of interest' side note, I created a page on fb https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Im-slowly-migrating-away-from-fb-to-google-Whos-with-me/120882101335548 wondering if I can have fb block it if I get enough likes or whatever... feel free to try bring fb's servers to a grinding hault /. community!

Dinosaurs became extinct because they had laser eyes and they killed each other. No one has yet been able to disprove this theory.

https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19135208295

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Since it says it was a chrome extension that was banned, I have to wonder how hard it would be to get around that ban. Could probably make a greasemonkey script or something too, I don't really know, haven't messed with that stuff...but I'm assuming all Facebook is doing is revoking app access codes, right? So...use theirs!

Load this page:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

Scroll a bit down the page and you will see the following link:

Friends: https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=...

Clicking that link (not here, but on the actual page) gives you a valid temporary access token. It's only good for 2 hours...but reload the page and you get another 2 hours! Then just pop that access code in and you can pull up a list of all of your friends, well formatted for a script to handle...and it gives you their IDs, which you can use to scrape data from their page in the same manner. How is Facebook going to block this, short of crippling their own developer pages?

Since it says it was a chrome extension that was banned, I have to wonder how hard it would be to get around that ban. Could probably make a greasemonkey script or something too, I don't really know, haven't messed with that stuff...but I'm assuming all Facebook is doing is revoking app access codes, right? So...use theirs!

Load this page:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

Scroll a bit down the page and you will see the following link:

Friends: https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=...

Clicking that link (not here, but on the actual page) gives you a valid temporary access token. It's only good for 2 hours...but reload the page and you get another 2 hours! Then just pop that access code in and you can pull up a list of all of your friends, well formatted for a script to handle...and it gives you their IDs, which you can use to scrape data from their page in the same manner. How is Facebook going to block this, short of crippling their own developer pages?

Actually you are not allowed to create fake accounts with facebook, you are supposed to create test accounts. I believe one of their blog posts threatened app and account closure if you were found to be created fake accounts as opposed to test accounts.
Since google+ doesn't have a developer API yet it doesn't really need test accounts. Once the API is released I'm sure they will come.

One of the nice features of Facebook is that if you go to Account > Privacy Settings > Customise Settings then you can find a button labelled "Preview my Profile"

Google+ has a similar option (while editing your profile you can choose to see the profile as any circle/user/anonymous user would see it).

I've been largely assembling circles these past couple days and was undecided about uploading an actual picture of me because there's no way to suppress that from being visible to people outside my circles. Sure, Google's put out an informative privacy center but I'm pretty sure in Facebook there is a way to hide nearly everything from people searching for you on the site.

One of the nice features of Facebook is that if you go to Account > Privacy Settings > Customise Settings then you can find a button labelled "Preview my Profile".

From here you can see exactly how people see your profile, right down to what invidual friends can and cannot see. Extremely helpful in working out what information you do and do not want to share with other users.

I only publically show my picture, my home town and my current location. Just enough information for people who are trying to find me to know whether or not I'm the person they want - without giving away my life history to anyone who comes knocking.

Yeah but AnnMarie Thomas isn't nearly as attractive as the Christina Bonnington

not that I choose videos based on the attractiveness of the woman in the video...

Christina has 68 likes, wonder how many she'll have after /. is done with her?

They're busy contributing significant enhancements to Linux Kernel block devices

Oh, also, MySQL.

They're busy contributing significant enhancements to Linux Kernel block devices

Oh, also, MySQL.

Bob's BBQ Shack is too far away from where I live. My Stoker would pay for itself in a single meal considering the airfare cost from ATL to NY.

Not sure. Have you seen his Facebook profile? Lots of other chiro and alt-med nuts sharing his KoolAid.

Grassroots action on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_246481098711235

With facebook, you can do that too! https://www.facebook.com/download/

Regardless of the honest status of his claim, he is not going to get anything but a lawyer bill. Why is this so obvious or should be? Simply look around at whats been going on in the cyber world of leaks and the ramping up of taxpayer funded cyber security and social network infiltration forces. i.e. http://www.seankerrigan.com/docs/PersonaManagementSoftware.pdf or do a search on "us gov fake people" and wonder how many are here on Slashdot? But the point is why would this guy be allowed to challenge facebook when he clearly would be an exposure threat to any involvement FB has in such manipulations. Manipulations for which people are getting tired of https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=231576206868906&id=123257617694097
And for what its worth, if anything at all, Facebook had representation at Bilderberg group this year. Certainly Facebook is not a company to be both invited to such a gathering and also be threatened by what would be considered a punk to those of such a group. Perhaps his lawyers came to realize this.
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Could. We. Be. More. Pathetic.

Yes.

besides these pictures I took https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.169900799714796.30084.100000846306529 I then drove home from work where still watching planes in the sky saw two planes one off in the distance to my left flying west and one to my right at a distance flying south. Both started dumping at the same time. two of the picture I took show both contrail and chemtrails, where even one picture shows a chemtrail going south and a con trail paralleling it. The comments on those photos tells me that they started dumping on the east coast that morning and by afternoon they were passing over Atlanta. I was skeptical of chemtrails... until that day and have since noticed that when ever chemtrails are done clouds develop from the chemtrails and rain follow. Cloud seeding is nothing new but Vitamin D deficiency is becoming more wide spread as these chemtrails are causing a sun blocking effect. We get Vitamin D from the Sun. Now if this were contrail seeding of clouds then the Vitamin D issue would not be. But given the chemicals being dumped, there is intent to block the suns rays. Global warming may be a bunch of hot air but solar storms are happening now and will get worse and.this is information even NASA has been releasing. Aluminum oxide is not only able to reflect some sun rays but also is a good conductor of electricity and as some will say, there has been some strange weather and some serious lightening. Add in pole shifting (the sun recently happened and earth going through it...) I've been on slashdot for years and I'm fully aware of the erroneous bias which is so often expressed via scores and comments. So I'm not at all surprised.

http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?campaign_id=229565125950&placement=emu&creative=tfa&keyword=brd
http://www.amazonservices.com/content/product-ads-on-amazon.htm/ref=az_mm_pads?ld=AZPADSMakeM

Those two both seem to be strong contenders and both have a large customer base. I think Google has a strong place, but I *don't* know that they are a monopoly.

Why waste money? Facebook and MS have been pals for a long time already. Do you know that all thirdparty ads on FB pages are served exclusively by Microsoft? Or that Bing integrates FB in search results? Or, on Windows Phone, guess which social network is automatically integrated into the contact list?

>>If we are lucky they will release the entire source code, so that the open source community can work its magic and port it them selfs

Well... the entire HL2 source code was leaked back in the day... =)

But I'd love to see the *TF2* source code released. Robin (back when he was just a uni student in Australia) released the source code to TF1 (up to a certain version), which enabled me to write CustomTF (I guess some people call it Shaka's Mod) which allows you to build your own class using a cash-based system. Hell of a lot of fun to write and play, and it turned into an open source project in its own right, with various people from around the world taking over leadership of the project at one point or another in the last 14 years.

People still play it, which is really neat. The Facebook group for it is here:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/178060565542861

But I'd love to be able to bring it to an engine written within the current millennium. =)

Dr. Bob's Facebook profile. He looks, scarily, legit. Even has DC friends.

Building a parser to grab the HTML document into a database or spreadsheet would be trivial.

The other two replies point out that learning enough programming to build a parser in the first place might not be trivial. Moreover, it would appear to violate Facebook's terms of service, item 3.2: "You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission."

• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1073135.ece/
• http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/scotnews11/110620-thirst.html/
• http://de-de.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=354349866505/

Cant' wait till we get it here. I'll be great.

It couldn't possibly be worse than Facebook. With Google's transparency with privacy, and already working business model (has facebook ever posted a profit?), I'd trust them over Facebook in a heartbeat.

Facebook screws me over daily. No, I don't want any facebook credits. No, I don't want to play farmville. Disgusting...

And yet you still use Facebook, daily?

Do I have a choice? Co-workers/Friends (use the term "friend" losely) get insulted if I don't "like" or comment on their inane ramblings at least 3-4 times a week.

Yes, you do. Delete your account. You'll realize just how little it actually gave you once you do that (especially in comparison to how much you give Facebook, particularly in personal and behavioral data).

EXACT SAME PROBLEM!

Sweet jesus. I thought it was me. I wrote a small php application that uploaded photos via the command line after resizing locally with Image/GraphicsMagick.

Yesterday I was in the middle of uploading weekend photos and my API key just died.

Sure enough, ALL the photos I've uploaded are gone. The entire reason I wrote the application was to quickly upload photos I've already sorted on my local file system. Hundreds, if not thousands of family photos that I've scanned in the last year and sorted by year were uploaded and then auto tagged by Face.com. I also shoot Rugby photos. After a weekend it's not unusual to upload a few hundred game photos. Every Single One is gone. My guess is someone screwed up on their metric for spam (Uploading photos? That's spam) and killed a BUNCH of photo uploading scripts.

I filed an appeal:
I just did. I don't have many (if any) users. I'm probably the primary user of my app. It's a php script to quickly upload numerous photos from the command line.

Got this reply:
Thanks for your inquiry. To help keep Platform policies simple while delivering great Platform experiences to users, our automated systems remove apps providing poor user experiences. Our systems use a variety of signals to assess user experience, such as user feedback on an app's communications (Stream stories, etc.) and on the app itself.

We've checked out the circumstances of your app's removal, and we found that your app received strong negative feedback from users and their friends. Here are some types of feedback that our systems look for when users interact with apps: removing content generated by your app from the News Feed, labeling content by your app as 'spam', uninstalling or blocking your app, and not granting extended permissions requested by your app. These signals denote a poor user experience and amount to a violation of our Facebook Platform Principles, which is why your app was removed.

Accordingly, we will not be able to restore your app. However, if you'd like to launch a new version of your app with a new app ID and canvas URL, please first make adjustments to ensure you're providing a good user experience and meeting our policies. You can monitor your app's user feedback here: http://www.facebook.com/insights. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with your original canvas URL.

I replied with:
Can you at least give me SOME examples? I haven't gotten ANY feedback. And like I said I'm pretty sure I was the only person that used my app.

I got this shit canned reply:
When testing an app, please place it in sandbox mode and utilize our test user network: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/

This will ensure that you can test the full functionality without being detected as "spammy" by our systems. Please do this for future test apps.

Thanks,

EXACT SAME PROBLEM!

Sweet jesus. I thought it was me. I wrote a small php application that uploaded photos via the command line after resizing locally with Image/GraphicsMagick.

Yesterday I was in the middle of uploading weekend photos and my API key just died.

Sure enough, ALL the photos I've uploaded are gone. The entire reason I wrote the application was to quickly upload photos I've already sorted on my local file system. Hundreds, if not thousands of family photos that I've scanned in the last year and sorted by year were uploaded and then auto tagged by Face.com. I also shoot Rugby photos. After a weekend it's not unusual to upload a few hundred game photos. Every Single One is gone. My guess is someone screwed up on their metric for spam (Uploading photos? That's spam) and killed a BUNCH of photo uploading scripts.

I filed an appeal:
I just did. I don't have many (if any) users. I'm probably the primary user of my app. It's a php script to quickly upload numerous photos from the command line.

Got this reply:
Thanks for your inquiry. To help keep Platform policies simple while delivering great Platform experiences to users, our automated systems remove apps providing poor user experiences. Our systems use a variety of signals to assess user experience, such as user feedback on an app's communications (Stream stories, etc.) and on the app itself.

We've checked out the circumstances of your app's removal, and we found that your app received strong negative feedback from users and their friends. Here are some types of feedback that our systems look for when users interact with apps: removing content generated by your app from the News Feed, labeling content by your app as 'spam', uninstalling or blocking your app, and not granting extended permissions requested by your app. These signals denote a poor user experience and amount to a violation of our Facebook Platform Principles, which is why your app was removed.

Accordingly, we will not be able to restore your app. However, if you'd like to launch a new version of your app with a new app ID and canvas URL, please first make adjustments to ensure you're providing a good user experience and meeting our policies. You can monitor your app's user feedback here: http://www.facebook.com/insights. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with your original canvas URL.

I replied with:
Can you at least give me SOME examples? I haven't gotten ANY feedback. And like I said I'm pretty sure I was the only person that used my app.

I got this shit canned reply:
When testing an app, please place it in sandbox mode and utilize our test user network: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/

This will ensure that you can test the full functionality without being detected as "spammy" by our systems. Please do this for future test apps.

Thanks,

It isn't hard.

Here's the page to delete your account. (Yes, delete, not disable.) I'm assuming it still works.

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

From the link above:

If you do not think you will use Facebook again and would like your account deleted, we can take care of this for you. Keep in mind that you will not be able to reactivate your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added. If you would like your account deleted, then click "Submit."

This is the reason I'm proud to call myself a geek. This is why I contribute to groups like EFF. This is why I tinker with networking hardware and try out Maker projects, even though I'm a software guy, and not necessarily a great one- because I'm sharing in the culture that can build a digital commons in the middle of the desert in one of the most war-torn regions of the planet using /scrap/. I mean, I'm sure Afghanistan is a great country, but the neighborhood's kinda rough- I have nothing but pride and admiration for FabFi and the people of Afghanistan.

It's probably going to get slashdotted pretty quick, so I'm going to copypasta some of their front page stuff here, and provide some of the links from their homepage at http://fabfi.fablab.af/;

FabFi is an open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles. With Fabfi, communities can build their own wireless networks to gain high-speed internet connectivity---thus enabling them to access online educational, medical, and other resources.

In the summer of 2010, the Fab team set out to show that Fabfi could be both reliable and sustainable. Choosing Kenya as a pilot site Fabfolk seeded three Fablab students with the hardware to begin deploying a network as a community-operated business.

FabFi is a user-extensible long range point-to-point and mesh hybrid-wireless broadband transmission infrastructure. It is based on the simple idea that a network of simple, intelligent, interconnected devices can create reliable networks in unstable environments. We use simple physics to make low-cost devices communicate directionally for very long distances (physics is cool!), and flexible configurations to adapt to a large variety of conditions.

They build their own parabolic dishes to increase antenna gain, much like the coffee-cantennas, wok-antennas, and pringles-cantennas we've all heard of.

Their blog is at http://fabfiblog.fabfolk.com/
Their Facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140474289914

Supported by this: https://www.x.com/thread/24103;jsessionid=59B91CEAC2684515EB8CED479BB2E1A7.node0?tstart=2

And: http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=aussie_a&ftab=AllFeedback&myworld=true

The timeframe of the literature supports the prior web development question. I presume this person was aiming to start some sort of online merchant business. And has some decent taste in phones.

And potentially another: http://www.facebook.com/people/Louis-Aldum/1021724556

If any of these sources are right it wouldnt take much social engineering to dig deeper. There are also plenty of other sites spamming the links - but it almost fits with some of the books purchased by the aussie_a ebay account. A matching email address of "kwikincome@yahoo.com" could be related to such a fella.

Frankly I hope most of this information is wrong since you've made such a challenge and that there's another guy in Australia who's been less careful. And I wont lie - I'm pretty easy to figure out, but I don't try to hide that fact.

In no particular order and for no particular reason, I'm just going to disagree with everything you say.

• - web apps are easy to deploy.

Be that as it may, the difference in various browsers means the results are not always what you were hoping.

• - web apps can't match efficiency of native apps (it doesn't matter when you have a multicore desktop, it matters when your smartphone has way less autonomy than it could.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/05/doom-ported-to-javascript-and.php
Ignore moore's law at your own risk. It isn't so much that computers are getting faster, now - they're getting smaller and drawing less power. Today's "mobile device" is as powerful as yesteryear's computer, and that trend won't slow down for some time.

• - web apps everywhere means they will have to be secured (compared with web 1.0 with standard ports for every protocol and a multitude of client/server software vs. port 80 and a handful of browsers)

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean, here.

• - web apps can be seamlessly upgraded (even when user doesn't want to, though)

And that's good and bad.

• - native apps are hard to deploy (a free OS with package management, look at debian or experiments like nixos, solves this problem)

No current OS worth talking about is hard to deploy to.

• - FOSS native apps can be owned by the user.

Why not a web app?

• Anyway, this is just a trend. Games will still be native, and people will hold onto their office suites, and some html5 features reduce the dependency from the network (local storage) which is good.

http://docs.google.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/05/doom-ported-to-javascript-and.php
http://www.kongregate.com/
http://facebook.com/
Javascript
Flash
Java Applets (har har)
HTML5
etc.

HTML5 and friends are only recently/beginning to be implemented and already they are shaking things up. Javascript is one of the most optimized languages in existence. There may be a bright future of desktop-like apps that are deployed via the web.

Sure, and the person who hired them for 50% of the wage of a documented worker because they know the person is illegal and can't complain, all the while pocketing most of the extra 40%, is blameless, right? It's only those brown folks' fault for wanting to leave a country with few economic opportunities or fleeing drug-war fueled violence pushed by the USA.

This is the natural pull of a Free Economy, New laws are being laid down to penalize these practices, and enforce existing Laws.
http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona

So here's the kicker, when global warming (that thing all the neo-cons and Tea Partiers are in denial about) really gets to messing with the livability in the tropics through more powerful tropical storms, flooding, heatwaves, etc., the migration from Central America through the Mexico border is going to make the last few decades look like a trickle.

Not a denier, and not a chicken little, but congressional hearings have exposed gore's financial interest and research bias. Where ice shelves melt on one side of the polar caps, they have been growing on the other. Furthermore there have been demonstrated cycles of temperature extremes going back thousands of years. Recordings with a variety of primitive equipment over the course of a handful of Millennia (sp) cannot come close to adequately explaining the current .7c shift. Especially when the impact of the Solar Cycle or other factors is not fully understood.

I will agree with you on the War on Drugs promoted violence at the borders. But everyone coming north 'cause people that have lived in a hot climate for generations suddenly cannot handle a little more than half a degree? Humans have proven to be far more adaptable than that.

- Dan.

credit card numbers are not transmitted over the internet... rather an encrypted block of text is sent, and that block doesn't mean anything to anyone except the holder of the encryption keys.

I realize you are trying to be clever, but you're not really making any sort of point. What does encryption have to do with whether or not you've entered something into the internet? By your logic, if you use https, you're not using the internet? So https://www.facebook.com/ is private?

but keep being an idiot, i mean, since that's all you are and all you could hope to be and all....

Like I said, trying to be clever. Just not doing a good job of it.

The $600,000 might be a little bit high

It's quite possible to overspend, even if the spending itself is for a reasonable purpose, and even if the amount of money is not all that high in absolute terms.

I'm trying to keep an open mind about this. Let's say $30k is a reasonable salary for a Flash programmer in Malaysia. So that's 20 man years development time. I've been searching for the pages, but it's difficult to find them using the names from the article (which is not a good sign):

• Karnival Jualan Mega 1Malaysia
• Cuti Cuti 1Malaysia
• Citrawarna 1Malaysia
• Fabulous Food 1Malaysia
• Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih, 1Malaysia

The Flash game seems to be here. Didn't feel like starting it, given that it asked to post stuff on my wall and send me email. Sorry about that - but maybe someone would like to give it a spin and let us know?

Is that really all they have - some plain text and photo galleries, plus a simple Flash game? Or did I not find the right stuff? Finding that should be easy though - otherwise it's hardly useful for it's intended purpose of convincing tourists to visit Malaysia. (I purposely searched for this marketing campaign and didn't find anything which would attract me to Malaysia - that can't be a good result for a country which I'm sure is an interesting place to visit...)

It really does look like a ripoff.

The $600,000 might be a little bit high

It's quite possible to overspend, even if the spending itself is for a reasonable purpose, and even if the amount of money is not all that high in absolute terms.

I'm trying to keep an open mind about this. Let's say $30k is a reasonable salary for a Flash programmer in Malaysia. So that's 20 man years development time. I've been searching for the pages, but it's difficult to find them using the names from the article (which is not a good sign):

• Karnival Jualan Mega 1Malaysia
• Cuti Cuti 1Malaysia
• Citrawarna 1Malaysia
• Fabulous Food 1Malaysia
• Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih, 1Malaysia

The Flash game seems to be here. Didn't feel like starting it, given that it asked to post stuff on my wall and send me email. Sorry about that - but maybe someone would like to give it a spin and let us know?

Is that really all they have - some plain text and photo galleries, plus a simple Flash game? Or did I not find the right stuff? Finding that should be easy though - otherwise it's hardly useful for it's intended purpose of convincing tourists to visit Malaysia. (I purposely searched for this marketing campaign and didn't find anything which would attract me to Malaysia - that can't be a good result for a country which I'm sure is an interesting place to visit...)

It really does look like a ripoff.

The $600,000 might be a little bit high

It's quite possible to overspend, even if the spending itself is for a reasonable purpose, and even if the amount of money is not all that high in absolute terms.

I'm trying to keep an open mind about this. Let's say $30k is a reasonable salary for a Flash programmer in Malaysia. So that's 20 man years development time. I've been searching for the pages, but it's difficult to find them using the names from the article (which is not a good sign):

• Karnival Jualan Mega 1Malaysia
• Cuti Cuti 1Malaysia
• Citrawarna 1Malaysia
• Fabulous Food 1Malaysia
• Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih, 1Malaysia

The Flash game seems to be here. Didn't feel like starting it, given that it asked to post stuff on my wall and send me email. Sorry about that - but maybe someone would like to give it a spin and let us know?

Is that really all they have - some plain text and photo galleries, plus a simple Flash game? Or did I not find the right stuff? Finding that should be easy though - otherwise it's hardly useful for it's intended purpose of convincing tourists to visit Malaysia. (I purposely searched for this marketing campaign and didn't find anything which would attract me to Malaysia - that can't be a good result for a country which I'm sure is an interesting place to visit...)

It really does look like a ripoff.

The $600,000 might be a little bit high

It's quite possible to overspend, even if the spending itself is for a reasonable purpose, and even if the amount of money is not all that high in absolute terms.

I'm trying to keep an open mind about this. Let's say $30k is a reasonable salary for a Flash programmer in Malaysia. So that's 20 man years development time. I've been searching for the pages, but it's difficult to find them using the names from the article (which is not a good sign):

• Karnival Jualan Mega 1Malaysia
• Cuti Cuti 1Malaysia
• Citrawarna 1Malaysia
• Fabulous Food 1Malaysia
• Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih, 1Malaysia

The Flash game seems to be here. Didn't feel like starting it, given that it asked to post stuff on my wall and send me email. Sorry about that - but maybe someone would like to give it a spin and let us know?

Is that really all they have - some plain text and photo galleries, plus a simple Flash game? Or did I not find the right stuff? Finding that should be easy though - otherwise it's hardly useful for it's intended purpose of convincing tourists to visit Malaysia. (I purposely searched for this marketing campaign and didn't find anything which would attract me to Malaysia - that can't be a good result for a country which I'm sure is an interesting place to visit...)

It really does look like a ripoff.

The $600,000 might be a little bit high

It's quite possible to overspend, even if the spending itself is for a reasonable purpose, and even if the amount of money is not all that high in absolute terms.

I'm trying to keep an open mind about this. Let's say $30k is a reasonable salary for a Flash programmer in Malaysia. So that's 20 man years development time. I've been searching for the pages, but it's difficult to find them using the names from the article (which is not a good sign):

• Karnival Jualan Mega 1Malaysia
• Cuti Cuti 1Malaysia
• Citrawarna 1Malaysia
• Fabulous Food 1Malaysia
• Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih, 1Malaysia

The Flash game seems to be here. Didn't feel like starting it, given that it asked to post stuff on my wall and send me email. Sorry about that - but maybe someone would like to give it a spin and let us know?

Is that really all they have - some plain text and photo galleries, plus a simple Flash game? Or did I not find the right stuff? Finding that should be easy though - otherwise it's hardly useful for it's intended purpose of convincing tourists to visit Malaysia. (I purposely searched for this marketing campaign and didn't find anything which would attract me to Malaysia - that can't be a good result for a country which I'm sure is an interesting place to visit...)

It really does look like a ripoff.

The $600,000 might be a little bit high

It's quite possible to overspend, even if the spending itself is for a reasonable purpose, and even if the amount of money is not all that high in absolute terms.

I'm trying to keep an open mind about this. Let's say $30k is a reasonable salary for a Flash programmer in Malaysia. So that's 20 man years development time. I've been searching for the pages, but it's difficult to find them using the names from the article (which is not a good sign):

• Karnival Jualan Mega 1Malaysia
• Cuti Cuti 1Malaysia
• Citrawarna 1Malaysia
• Fabulous Food 1Malaysia
• Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih, 1Malaysia

The Flash game seems to be here. Didn't feel like starting it, given that it asked to post stuff on my wall and send me email. Sorry about that - but maybe someone would like to give it a spin and let us know?

Is that really all they have - some plain text and photo galleries, plus a simple Flash game? Or did I not find the right stuff? Finding that should be easy though - otherwise it's hardly useful for it's intended purpose of convincing tourists to visit Malaysia. (I purposely searched for this marketing campaign and didn't find anything which would attract me to Malaysia - that can't be a good result for a country which I'm sure is an interesting place to visit...)

It really does look like a ripoff.

Yes.

Privacy > Customise Settings > Preview my Profile.

By default it shows what "most people" (i.e. strangers) see. You can then customise it for individual friends on your list.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1179953216&sk=friends

Google and Facebook have had IPv6 enabled for quite a while. This was just enabling it globally rather than edge cases.

Also, this post was published a few months back - https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=432670242130

Once again, Facebook makes very clear what it is they are rolling out. If you don't follow what they are doing, you can't say you were not warned.

without giving users any notice

Um, http://www.facebook.com/facebook If you don't follow what they are doing, you can't say that they gave you no notice. In particular - https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=467145887130

Its clearly posted so anyone can see what's up

without giving users any notice

Um, http://www.facebook.com/facebook If you don't follow what they are doing, you can't say that they gave you no notice. In particular - https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=467145887130

Its clearly posted so anyone can see what's up

Ahhh oops. That explains it.

Also, I noticed that although host was not giving an ipv6 addy, wget was, but that's just because facebook.com redirects to www.facebook.com that does have ipv6. Missed that first time.

~$ wget facebook.com
--2011-06-08 12:00:04-- http://facebook.com/
Resolving facebook.com... 69.63.181.12, 69.63.189.16, 69.63.189.11
Connecting to facebook.com|69.63.181.12|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.facebook.com/ [following]
--2011-06-08 12:00:04-- http://www.facebook.com/
Resolving www.facebook.com... 2620:0:1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2, 69.63.189.26
Connecting to www.facebook.com|2620:0:1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://m.facebook.com/?w2m&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr [following]
--2011-06-08 12:00:05-- http://m.facebook.com/?w2m&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr
Resolving m.facebook.com... 66.220.147.43
Connecting to m.facebook.com|66.220.147.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

That's a good dual stack test for the client end right there... 4 and 6 in one instance of wget.